Sauvage Dior 2015 Eau de Toilette

Yes, I admit it: I like to polarize. Not because I like to; I just talk the way my beak has grown, sometimes without regard to losses. I also have my own personal opinion about the popular Sauvage.
Many call this fragrance a pattern of masculinity, almost pretending it could be the go-to scent of a Jason Statham. Unfortunately, I see it differently: Sauvage is certainly a very pleasing scent. First it smells intensely citric, then it adds a sporty note, and finally it really does have something of a shower gel or aftershave. Here I see an unmistakably masculine NOTE - but nothing more. But the airy, fruity character of this fragrance throughout the whole process makes it seem a bit soft. Many people claim that the name Sauvage (German for "wild") would be appropriate for such a fragrance. I don't think it has anything raw, animal, natural, but rather appears cultivated and elegant. And this is exactly what leads me not to classify Dior's driving force as typically male. Certainly there has been a change in the world of men: to care for oneself with beauty products is no longer misunderstood. Nevertheless, this type is not what many associate with a "real" man. When women think of real men, they think of hairy, pithy, sometimes somewhat clumsy guys. Men with character, like their fathers. They didn't carry fragrances in the affected way that today's men do, who only want to give the impression of carrying something genuinely raw inside them. They spray themselves with scents like Sauvage and hope that this will give them character, which unfortunately simply doesn't work with the multitude of wearers. On the other hand, men like our fathers UNDERTAKE their already existing and unmistakable character with inyour-face scents. Macho airs included and even desired! Often they were clumsy in the dosage, but that's exactly what made them real men as well, who didn't study videos about the right way to apply different scents, who had a signature scent and not a "Fragrance-Wardrobe"...
I could go on forever with examples, but I want to round off my article with the following thought: Sauvage is a reflection of what's happening to the male world today: No coincidences, everything is precisely trimmed, just the appearance of wild. This scent is not a bad one for me, it is rightly a crowdpleaser. But that's exactly what bothers me: no rough edges. I find the general tendency towards men's fragrances that are becoming more and more unisex-suitable generally depressing. Because I like being a man of the old school, despite my "only" 34 years.